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SUSPENDERS.

No. 352,348. Patented Nov. 9, 1886.

M1 EEEES UNITED STATES PATENT OrFIcE.

FRANCIS M. PIPER, OF LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-FOURTH TO WILLIAM N ORTON, OF SAME PLACE.

SUSPENDERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 352,348, dated November 9, 1886.

Application filed August 16, 1886. Serial No. 211,009. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANCIS M. PIPER, of Lynn, county of Essex, State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Im- 5 provements'in Suspenders, of which the following is a specification, taken in connection with the drawings accompanying and forming a part hereof, in which- Figure 1 is a view of a pair of suspenders,

10 showing my improvement attached. Fig. 2 is a View of a modified form of my attachment.

The object of my invention is the production of suspenders which shall not only support the sides and back of the trousers, but shall I 5 also support the front thereof; and it consists in the construction and arrangement of a pair of straps extending from the front straps of the suspenders near the shoulder to the front of thewaist of the trousers, as shown and here- 20 inafter described.

My invention is simple, and will be readily understood from the following description, in which reference is had to the accompanying drawings.

A represents the shoulder-straps of a pair of suspenders. These I provide with buckles and eyes a, which may be set at any point on the straps A, as desired, thus allowing the straps B B to be raised or lowered. The straps B 30 are secured together at their lower ends, as

shown, Fig. 1, and are there provided with a loop, 0, having a button-hole by which it is secured to abntton in the center of the waistband of the trousers. A button may be provided on the inside of the waistband for the 5 purpose, although usually this is unnecessary, as the upper front button of the trousers will answer the purpose. The upper ends of the straps B are provided wit-h snap-hooks b, or

equivalent devices, by which the straps may 0 be readily secured to or released from the eyes a.

Instead of the buckle and eyes a and the hooks b, a spring hook of well-known conslruction may be used adapted to seize the 5 straps A at any point. i

For some styles of waistcoat it may be desiraole to separate thelower ends of the straps -13, setting a piece between them and using two of the straps B B and button attachment 0.60 secured between the shoulder-straps of the suspenders in front and buttonin'g to the front of the trousers, for the purposes and substantially as specified.

FRANCIS M. PIPER. VV-itnesses:

WM. A. MAOLEOD, M. A. THOMPSON. 

